New Rhododendrons

I've come over all Paul the Apostle

This old life's impossible

Can't quite stand the sight

Of Edinburgh castle

Can't quite finish a beer

Highs much like the lows

Looking up Caravaggio

And mythological

Hymalayan hollows

Try hard, you can go

Go

Go

If it's Damascus I'm en route to

I might as well bring you

See, we live on a crag

Scope the land out the back

I keep a kilner jar

With a hyacinth growing in it

I use it like a vase

Beside an old suitcase from 1910

Plans to re-tailor its insides

Have moved to London

What blooms in June?

New Rhododendrons

Rhododendrons

Now take it as a signal

See it as a symbol

I'm keeping these things alive

It's all too much for me to handle

Need help with my angles

I hope you brought

Your Theodolite

Keep my effects in a silo

A little model

I've had since I was little

Used to hold of kinds

Of beautiful animals

And I still think of them

When I'm reminded of them

How I used to hold onto them

Sun and snow

Remember holding them close

Close

How I held them so close

If you lose track

Of what you've loved in the past

There's no going back

Lost amongst the bric-a-brac

If you lose track

Of what you've loved in the past

There's no going back